UPDATE: Outage leaves 7,100 customers without power in Burien area

UPDATE: Seattle City Light crews restored power to most of the 7,100 customers affected by an outage in Burien and unincorporated King County by 6:15 p.m. Thursday, according to a department spokesman.

Service was expected to be restored for the remaining 200 customers by midnight.

A power line came down, starting a fire in a wooded utility right of way south of S 96th Street and west of Des Moines Memorial Drive. But the cause of the outage remained under investigation Thursday night.

ORIGINAL POST: Power in Burien and unincorporated King County has been knocked out, leaving about 7,100 homes and businesses without electricity, Seattle City Light said Thursday.

A fire was burning south of South 96th Street and west of Des Moines Memorial Drive.

“Power lines were reported on the ground in the area and at least one utility pole was burning,” City Light spokesman Scott Thomsen said in a statement.

The cause of the outage was not immediately known. City Light expects to restore service to most of the affected customers by 5:30 p.m. by routing power around the damaged area, Thomsen said.

The general boundaries of the outage are S.W. Barton Street on the North, S.W. 167th Street on the South, Glendale Way S, on the East and Puget Sound on the West, City Light said.